I believe I've detected a pattern in today's tech news every story is connected a message being sent to us
By someone keep watching and you'll see old Jimmy ain't so crazy after all
NVIDIA has unveiled their newest upscaling tech DLSS 5 which now stands for damn low-key
Slopsists or might as well because watching the demo video feels like your fingers slipped and you accidentally opened Facebook again
I'm not mark this place which is allowed shrimp. Jesus. I missed you
The video seems to have thought the best way to continue developing their genuinely impressive DLSS tech was to run every frame through an AI
Yassify filter making sure the prompt contains the keywords photorealistic skilled photographer
cinematic color grading. Oh, sorry NVIDIA responded to the flood of negative comments on the announcement video by clarifying
It's not a filter it inputs the game's color and motion vectors for each frame into the model
and It infuses pixels with photoreal lighting and material which just sounds like explaining how an AI filter works
But hey, I'm not an expert. This isn't leather
NVIDIA says this is the company's most significant breakthrough in computer graphics since the debut of real-time ray tracing in 2018
It's so powerful. They needed to RTX 50 90s to run the demo the first one actually rendered the game while the second one was on
Sloppification duty now to be fair in that pinned comment
NVIDIA did say developers will be able to tweak DLSS 5's effects
So maybe there will be less Sloppified versions of this but I guess we'll find out when it launches this fall and video out some other stuff at GTC
But I wouldn't worry about them the keynote was mostly CEO Jensen Wang's excuse to rant out a captive audience about vertically integrated
Accelerated computing infrastructure for two hours. See you just fell asleep for a second Microsoft has confirmed that some Samsung
PC's running Windows 11 are losing access to their C drive after installing last month's security update
God damn it Windows March was going so good for you
The company's known issues page noted that some users are getting hit with access denied errors when trying to access C
With the same access issue also cropping up with various apps and system utilities
And if anyone asked this is the reason why I haven't responded to emails for the last couple of weeks
You don't have a Samsung laptop
Over on Reddit users have been sharing homebrewed fixes that involve logging in as an admin and manually restoring security permissions
Fortunately for Microsoft though this actually seems to be more of a Samsung issue than a Windows one because after a joint investigation
Microsoft identified the real culprit as Samsung's Galaxy Connect app the son of a bitch
Microsoft has since pulled the app from the store and Samsung has republished a stable older version
Though recovery for already affected devices remains limited
La that said it's not all L's for Windows users as new insider builds now support monitor refresh rates above a thousand Hertz
finally With the possible ceiling reportedly raised all the way to 5,000 Hertz
So for those of you rockin thousand Hertz predator f-sex monitor you're finally gonna be getting what you paid for a
Barely perceptible decrease in motion blur as rock just quietly revealed its second motherboard
That supports both ddr4 and ddr5 on the same board giving budget builders a fighting chance
It actually assembling a PC in today's economy the h610 m combo 2 is a budget
12th through 14th gen Intel motherboard with three dim slots to for ddr5 and one lone ddr4 slot
You can't use both types simultaneously and since there is only one ddr4 slot you'd be stuck in single channel
But at least with this motherboard you get options
Asrock actually released a bigger version of this bad boy back in December with six RAM slots and dual channel support for the older
Dims, but this combo 2 version shrinks things down to hopefully come in a little cheaper because that's the whole point
Right although as rock has yet to confirm pricing at least they have some time a report from South Korea's Chosun
Biz says Samsung internally expects the RAM shortage to last until late 2028
Existential drag with manufacturers now hesitant to build too much new capacity for fear of over-investing before the AI boom
cools off So if you're building a PC anytime soon
Maybe light a candle for your wallet and then sell the candle because you're gonna need the money for a single stick of ddr4 memory
To sit beside your empty ddr5 slots plus the sick deal from our sponsor
Okay, so the quick bits through a bit of a wrench in my conspiracy theory because they had too much sugar on our last stake
Out and started a wrench fight
Rich through a wrench Apple just announced the AirPods Max 2 with upgraded features including studio quality mics
live translation and a camera remote all for
$549 for just $50 more you could get the Mac book neo an entire computer or for $150 more
You can get the Mac Pro wheels which are wheels or for zero extra dollars
And if you're in the Seattle area you could get a flamethrower
Legally we're not telling you to buy a flamethrower But if you had a flamethrower you could probably get a pair of AirPods for free kind of
How coercion? The Xbox one long-considered Microsoft's most secure product ever has finally been hacked 12 years after launch
security researcher Marcus Gassellin Unveiled the bliss exploit at Reverse 2026 using precisely timed voltage glitches to bypass the console's boot rom at the
Silicon level making it completely unpatchable It only works on the original chunky model and requires soldering to the motherboard so don't get too excited
But it's a huge win for digital preservation and honestly 12 years unhacked is a solid run the ps4 only made it 3
So I guess Xbox did win at least one battle in the console war the one that mattered the least
Meta will be ending support for end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs after May 8th apparently not enough people were using the opt-in feature
Probably because like me they didn't even know about it I could have been securely ordering Chinese peptides on the Instagrams this whole time
The company support page warns users with encrypted chats to download their messages and media before they lose access
Given that this is coming in the midst of the ongoing discussion about privacy versus safety with the EU expected to roll out new rules
Around encrypted chats. I wouldn't be surprised if meta decided it wasn't worth the headache
It will be a headache where for the roughly seven high school kids using this feature to migrate all their hot goss
But what happened last weekend a Jenny Tabuno's pool party to another app Niantic Spatial has partnered with Cocoa Robotics
Giving the delivery bot company access to a visual positioning system trained on over 30 billion images from Pokemon Go players
All those years of scanning poker stops and gyms created a centimeter accurate map of city streets right for a new
Clankomon to be got it around where GPS doesn't cut it Niantic use synergy
Niantic CEO John Hanks said getting Pikachu to realistically run around and getting Cocoa's robot to safely navigate the world is actually the same problem
So this isn't as weird as it sounds Guess that Pokemon X Domino's ad from 2009 was just foreshadowing and
Noctua is teasing what appears to be the Antec Flux Pro Noctua edition a full-tower case decked out in their signature brown
With a wood grain front panel first shown off at Computex last year
It ships with six of Noctua's premium G2 fans about 250 dollars worth of loan
But it could come with an unrefrigerated tub of cottage cheese It still wouldn't dampen the hype for a new product from the only PC gaming hardware company with actual taste
Everything's brown, but it's a nice brown
Like a station wagon and that's just a taste of all the fresh check news
You'll get when you come back on Wednesday and look I'll be honest with you
I could not connect the dots of this conspiracy
But I did use a bunch of red string for my unhinged conspiracy board and I think it looks pretty cool
Follow me on Pinterest. It's just off-screen. I could get it
But it's big and maybe next time